postponement

English

Etymology

Frompostpone+‎-ment.

Noun

postponement(countableanduncountable,pluralpostponements)

1. Adelay,as a formal delay in a proceeding.

   The lawyer asked for apostponementin the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.

Synonyms

• cunctation,hold-up;see alsoThesaurus:delay

Translations

the state of being adjourned

• Azerbaijani:təxir
• Bulgarian:отлагане(bg)n(otlagane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Thôi trì／Thôi trì(zh)(tuīchí),Diên hoãn／Diên hoãn(zh)(yánhuǎn),Diên kỳ(zh)(yánqī)

• French:ajournement(fr)m
• German:Aufschub(de)m,Verschiebung(de)f
• Greek:

  Ancient:ἀναβολήf(anabolḗ)

• Japanese:Diên kỳ(ja)(えんき, enki)
• Macedonian:одложу́вањеn(odložúvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:ajournementn,utsettelsem,utsetningmorf,utsettingmorf

• Romanian:amânare(ro)f
• Russian:отсро́чка(ru)f(otsróčka)(postponement),откла́дывание(ru)n(otkládyvanije)(act of postponing),заде́ржка(ru)f(zadéržka)(delay)
• Spanish:aplazamientom
• Ukrainian:відклада́нняn(vidkladánnja)